Beiyang reactionaries

"kindness."

Han Linchun guessed it right away.

In recent years, 90.00% of China's arms trade has been controlled by Japan.Moreover, Japan has supported a large number of agents by relying on the arms trade in recent years.Not only the Anhui Clan headed by Duan Qirui is pro-Japanese, but also Zhang Zuolin's Feng Clan, even Sun Yat-sen and Lu Rongting are pro-Japanese.

why?

Because in recent years, only Japan has been able to sell large quantities of weapons to China.Relying on their arms trade, Japan's power can be said to spread throughout China.The Anhui, Feng and Guangdong regions all transferred huge benefits to the Japanese government and businessmen for the sake of Japanese arms.

China is a big country and a big cake.

Countries such as Britain, France and the United States all want to take a bite. How can they tolerate Japan swallowing China by itself.Therefore, the arms embargo is used to block Japan's growing power in China.

"General, you don't have to worry about this. The current output of our Sichuan Armory can fully meet the needs of the troops. If new equipment arrives, there will be no problem even if there are [-] more troops."

Han Linchun patted his chest to guarantee.

Don't say that Duan Xun's army is only about 20 people now, even if Duan Xun's army has 30 people, Han Linchun is not afraid.Because the output of the Sichuan Arsenal is there, it can fully meet the needs of 30 people.

With the foreign arms embargo, any warlord in China may have a headache.Even Duan Qirui from Beijing would have a headache, but only Duan Xun didn't have to worry.Because there is a Sichuan Arsenal behind Duan Xun.

"I know."

Duan Xun said with a smile: "Actually, their arms embargo will eventually become a piece of waste paper. As long as there is enough profit, these embargoes do nothing. Those foreign firms have all their hands and eyes, and some of them have ways to avoid their embargo. We import arms from China. However, it will take at least several years, perhaps four to five years, until those international foreign firms find loopholes in the arms embargo and start arms trade with us. You must know that the situation in China is not stable. There may be wars all the time, or every year there will be large and small wars. As long as there are wars, the troops need weapons and ammunition. But foreign countries impose an embargo on our arms, and you can imagine what will happen when the time comes ?"

"If the price increases, the price of arms will increase."

Han Linchun instantly understood what Duan Xun meant.

"General, the price of weapons will definitely increase by then, and the price will increase several times. General, I have a deep understanding of domestic arsenals. When the Republic of China was founded, the most powerful arsenals in China were Hanyang Arsenal and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau began to decline as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty. After the Republic of China, the government's support became less and less. Moreover, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau gradually focused its energy on the Jiangnan Shipyard, resulting in the current arsenal of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. It has completely declined. Many of the original gun manufacturing factories have been closed, and I estimate that the gun manufacturing factories of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau will disappear completely soon. As for the Hanyang Arsenal, the output is very limited because the government has not paid much attention to it. This time we dig After a large number of technicians came to the Hanyang Arsenal, the Hanyang Arsenal fell into chaos. I recently heard that the new supervisor of the Hanyang Arsenal started to do some black powder business to make money after coming to the Hanyang Armory, and he didn’t care much about gun manufacturing. The output of guns and artillery is less than half of what it was a year ago. If there is a slightly more powerful arsenal, it is the Taiyuan arsenal. However, that factory has just started. Although it has the support of Shanxi Governor Yan Xishan, Lian Jin The army itself can't guarantee it, and the monthly output of rifles is only a few hundred, and it can't equip a division's troops in a year."

Han Linchun became more and more excited as he talked.

China's arsenals have declined one by one since the founding of the Republic of China, and their output is not as good as that in the late Qing Dynasty.Originally, there was still a Hanyang arsenal supporting it.But after being poached by Duan Xun, the situation of Hanyang Arsenal is also very pessimistic.The new supervisor of Hanyang Arsenal is not someone like Liu Qingen, he came to Hanyang Arsenal just to make money.Therefore, he used the machines of the Hanyang Arsenal to work for factories outside to earn money, and embezzled some funds from the Ministry of War, which caused the output of guns at the Hanyang Arsenal to plummet.

After turning around now, I discovered that China's current arsenal is so poor that it makes people heinous.Looking around, the most powerful arsenal in China at present has become a rising star Sichuan arsenal.The output of the Sichuan arsenal is twice as much as that of other arsenals in the country combined.

However, China's arsenal has declined so much, but few people care about it, and few warlords worry about it.

Anyway, I don't make weapons myself, so I can buy them from abroad.Especially Japan, which is close at hand, has an astonishing number of weapons, and the prices are cheaper than European and American weapons.Batches of weapons entered various Chinese troops.There are also several divisions in Duan Xun's hands that are all full-time mechanical troops.

In order to be in line with the Japanese armed forces, Duan Xun's weapons and equipment manufactured by the Sichuan Arsenal are also imitated Japanese weapons.In this way, bullets and shells can be used directly.

It is precisely because foreign weapons can be purchased that everyone does not pay attention to the arsenal in their hands.Since the Westernization Movement, many arsenals have been built in all provinces of China, but now these warlords don't pay much attention to these arsenals.

"Fang Chen, as long as the foreign arms embargo order comes, the price of our domestic weapons will not increase as usual. At that time, not to mention rifles, even a bullet may cost a silver dollar."

The arms embargo has caused China's arms prices to skyrocket in a short period of time.

Historically, in 1920, a rifle bullet was sold for one silver dollar in Qingdao.The price of a French revolver, plus one hundred bullets, reached 150 silver dollars in Shanghai.Not to mention some foreign rifles, even Hanyang sold them for two to three hundred silver dollars when they were the highest.

Such as heavy machine guns and infantry artillery, the price is surprisingly expensive.

Even so, there are not many weapons for sale in the domestic market.Because everyone wants to fight for territory, every warlord is hoarding arms, and there is no place for surplus arms to appear on the market.

It was not until after 1923, 1924, and 1925 that weapons from the Soviet Union, Germany, and the Czech Republic began to enter China, and the skyrocketing price of Chinese weapons ended.

"General, if this is the case, then it is a good opportunity."

Han Linchun's eyes glowed.

Originally, foreign weapons were expensive to come to China. If there is another arms embargo, then even some local guns and guns will increase in price.What's more, although the weapons produced by Duan Xun are not as good as foreign weapons in many aspects, they are not inferior to the Hanyang weapons commonly used in China.It's just because the weapons are used by Duan Xun's own troops, so they are not as famous as those made in Hanyang.

The price will be very good.

"So after returning this time, in addition to the construction of the new factory, we also need to find a few domestic arms dealers. I will earn back the money we have invested in the arsenal over the past few years."

"Yes."

204 Controlling the Shaanxi Army

January 1919, 1, also in Lintong.

After the Shaanxi Jingguo Army accepted the reorganization, Duan Xun held the first Shaanxi Army Conference.The Shaanxi Army here does not only refer to the troops adapted from the Shaanxi Jingguo Army, but also Chen Shufan's troops, and Liu Zhenhua's Zhensong Army.Except for the troops brought in by Duan Xun, all the troops in Shaanxi were unified and reorganized this time.

As the temporary governor of Shaanxi, Duan Xun successively gave the designations of the Third Division of the Shaanxi Army, the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army, the Second Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, and the Third Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.

The Third Division of the Shaanxi Army was formed by the Liu Tianzuo brigade stationed in Liquan and the half-dead Liu Shilong brigade.However, two regiments of Liu Shilong's brigade were disbanded by Jing Wumu, a large number of officers were shot because of military discipline, and even Liu Shilong, the brigade commander, was dismissed.In order to make up for Liu Shilong's brigade, Duan Xun reorganized the remaining [-] people in Liu Shilong's brigade, and then transferred the Li Pinxian Special War Battalion, Liao Lei Battalion, and Liu Xing Battalion from He Yaozu's troops, and let the three of them serve as Three heads of regiments.Later, Long Yun was also transferred out to serve as the brigade commander of this brigade.

In this way, Duan Xun created a brigade. In the name of Liu Shilong's troops, they insisted that they were the Shaanxi Army's troops.

These two brigades were then reorganized into the Third Division of the Shaanxi Army.Of course, Duan Xun couldn't do too much, so he appointed Liu Tianzuo as the commander of the Third Division of the Shaanxi Army, concurrently as the commander of the Seventh Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, and Long Yun as the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.

The Third Division of the Shaanxi Army has two brigades under its jurisdiction. It is said that it is a division, but in fact, its full strength is only 6000 people, and a regiment has only about 800 people.Of course, this is for the troops of the Shaanxi Army. Each regiment on Longyun's side has more than a thousand troops.

Then came Jiang Hongmo's trip.

One of Liu Tianzuo's and Zhang Baolin's troops was in Liquan, and the other was in Xianyang. Neither of them was greatly affected, and their strength still remained.Therefore, Duan Xun didn't want to do anything to them. He was afraid of their fierce resistance, so he didn't disturb their troops.

The establishment of the third division of the Shaanxi Army is nothing more than adding sand to the third division.He also appointed Liu Tianzuo as the commander of the third division, and did not interfere with Liu Tianzuo's Seventh Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.

But Jiang Hongmo is different.

His troops are far away in Dali, and they are all surrounded by Duan Xun's troops.He can't do anything there.Therefore, he could only accept Duan Xun's arrangement very aggrieved.Duan Kan was the commander of the No.18 mixed brigade appointed by the Ministry of the Army, but Duan Xun insisted on recommending Liu Zanting, who had made great contributions in the process of Pingzang, as the commander of the No.18 mixed brigade.Then Duan Kan was stuffed into the Shaanxi army.

A brigade was transferred from western Henan, and then the remaining Zhensong army was reorganized, and a Shaanxi army brigade was created.Then, together with Jiang Hongmo's brigade, they compiled a designation for the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army.Duan Kan served as the commander of the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army, concurrently as the commander of the Ninth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, and Jiang Hongmo served as the commander of the Tenth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.

Zhang Baolin's troops were reorganized into the Second Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, and Jing Yuexiu's troops far away in northern Shaanxi were reorganized into the Third Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.So far, the current Shaanxi Army has four divisions and three mixed brigades, with a total of more than 4 troops.

This time the meeting was held in Lintong, except for Jing Yuexiu who was far away in northern Shaanxi, other leaders of the Shaanxi army came to Lintong.In fact, Duan Xun gave such a designation, but the struggle within the Shaanxi Army is not small.

Some Shaanxi army units just got together, and the internal strife among them was also very fierce.

Just like after Guo Jian became the commander of the Second Division of the Shaanxi Army, he and Gao Jun, the commander of the Sixth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, were constantly dirty.Gao Jun's sixth brigade has always been a self-contained system. It has followed Gao Jun since the year of [-], and it is Gao Jun's direct line of troops.And who is Guo Jian.How can you allow your own Second Division of the Shaanxi Army to be a country within a country, so you have been using various excuses to find fault.I hope to be able to intervene in the Sixth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army.

Of course Gao Jun would not agree.

In terms of seniority, both of them participated in the revolution in the year of [-].Moreover, during the Revolution of [-], Gao Jun's status was higher than that of Guo Jian.Even during the "anti-Yuan and Zhulu" war to protect the country, Gao Jun's status was higher than that of Guo Jian.Moreover, Gao Jun not only participated in the revolution with Cao Shiying, but also had a good relationship with people like Hu Jingyi, and his popularity in the Shaanxi Army was far better than that of Guo Jian.How could he put Guo Jian in his eyes.

So the two fought very hard in the second division.

But Duan Xun turned a blind eye to these.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with myself.

Because it was the Shaanxi Army meeting, none of the generals from Duan Xun's side came over.Duan Xun also only participated in the meeting as a temporary Shaanxi governor.Duan Xun was in the middle, with Imutuk next to him, and Youmin on the other.

Below sat Hu Jingyi, Commander of the First Division of the Shaanxi Army, Guo Jian, Commander of the Second Division of the Shaanxi Army, Liu Tianzuo, Commander of the Third Division of the Shaanxi Army, Duan Kan, Commander of the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army, Fan Zhongxiu, Commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army, and Zhang Baolin, commander of the Second Mixed Brigade.As well as the brigade commanders of each division, and some regimental leaders also came to this meeting.